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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tion a few weeks ago, an autograph-hunting youngster asked George Preston Marshall : "Are you the coach?" Owner Marshall, whose Washington Redskins (once top-rankers in the National Professional Foot ball League) had just taken a 49-10-14 drubbing from the Philadelphia Eagles, brushed the kid .off with two cryptic words: "Not today." It was quite an admission for the volatile, self-styled genius who sometimes hired coaches to run his team, supercoaches to run the coaches-and then ran the whole thing himself...
...Nazis' all-out bombing campaign; sonar, the underwater ear which helped break the Nazis' almost-decisive U-boat campaign; missiles, such as the V-i which "might well have stopped the [Normandy] invasion"; rocket-firing bazookas which can stop tanks; recoilless guns which can be carried by two men and have the power of 75-mm. howitzers...
...stale before Bob Hope got a chance to be heard singing it in The Paleface, the precipitant fame of Mule Train was slightly embarrassing to Republic Pictures, which had bought it for a spot in a new movie, Singing Guns. With Mule Train record sales expected to pass the two-million mark, Republic could only hope that its song would not be worn out before Singing Guns (starring Vaughn Monroe) comes along next month...
...earnings of the family-owned Ford Motor Co. have always been and still are a mystery, some facts about its dividends and ownership came out last week. In a report to Detroit's Probate Court, Clara Ford, widow of Henry the First, reported that the company paid out two dividends amounting to $4.50 a share for the year ending last July...
When the Department of Justice went after the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. with an antitrust suit two months ago (TIME, Sept. 26), it thought it had a popular target. The trustbusters thought that small grocers would be glad to see the A & P chopped down to size. Last week A & P happily produced evidence that the trustbusters might have guessed wrong. In full-page newspaper ads in 1,800 cities...